Humanities Research Institute Calendar

Thursday, September 21, 2023

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  • 4:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

  EJP-HRI Lecture Series | Arthur Longworth

  Arthur Longworth is an author and Six-Time PEN America Prison Writing Award Winner.

  • Lecture

Friday, September 22, 2023

• • 12:00 - 2:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  Public Humanities Retreat

  • Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

• 

  • 4:30 pm
    
  • Authors' Corner: Illini Union Bookstore

  Gwendolyn Brooks Social Justice Initiative presents: Roger Reeves

  • Performance

Thursday, September 28, 2023

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Illinois Street Residence Hall, 50AB

  HRI at ISR | Faculty Lunch Talk: Erik McDuffie

  • Lecture
• 

  • 7:30 pm
    
  • University of Illinois Stock Pavilion

  CETACEAN (The Whale)

  • Performance

Friday, September 29, 2023

• 

  • 7:30 pm
    
  • University of Illinois Stock Pavilion

  CETACEAN (The Whale)

  • Performance

Saturday, September 30, 2023

• 

  • 7:30 pm
    
  • University of Illinois Stock Pavilion

  CETACEAN (The Whale)

  • Performance

Sunday, October 1, 2023

• 

  • 7:30 pm
    
  • University of Illinois Stock Pavilion

  CETACEAN (The Whale)

  • Performance

Monday, October 2, 2023

• 

  • 7:30 pm
    
  • University of Illinois Stock Pavilion

  CETACEAN (The Whale)

  • Performance

Thursday, October 5, 2023

• 

  • 7:30 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 108

  Community Speaker Series | Responding to and Addressing Community Needs: An Evening with Champaign-Urbana Practitioners

  Join us for an evening of conversation about inequities in health care, incarceration, and addiction recovery—all through a local lens. Hear from our panelists about their organizations, the challenges they face, and how they're working to positively impact community health and individual well-being.

  • Other

Thursday, October 12, 2023

• • 7:30 pm
    
  • Spurlock Museum

  Ada Limón: Working in the Service of Poetry | Reading and Conversation

  • Other

Friday, October 13, 2023

• 

  • 12:00 - 2:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 108

  Panel and Book Discussion | Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of U.S. Whaling

  • Other
• • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, 1st Floor Lobby

  HRI Graduate Student Social

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 5:00 pm
    

  Deadline: HRI Director’s Fellows Applications

  Deadline to apply for the HRI Director's Fellows program. Applications due by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 13.

  • Other

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 424

  Graduate Fellowship Info Session

  • Informational
• 

  • 7:30 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

  Interseminars | Damon Locks and Tara Aisha Willis: "Step step step: improvisation, sound, and movement"

  • Performance

Friday, October 20, 2023

• • 1:00 - 4:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  Graduate Co-Working Session

  • Other

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, 1212 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801

  Food for the Soul/Inside Scoop with Alexis Pauline Gumbs

  • Other
• 

  • 7:30 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

  Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Kinship Aspirations: An Interspecies Middle Passage

  • Lecture

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 424

  Humanities Research Lab Info Session

  • Informational
• 

  • 4:30 pm
    
  • Authors' Corner: Illini Union Bookstore

  Kaplan Family Writer in Residence: Laila Lalami

  • Performance
• 

  • 7:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  Interseminars | Courtney Morris: "Marxists and Priestesses"

  • Lecture

Friday, November 10, 2023

• • 1:00 - 4:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  Graduate Co-Working Session

  • Other

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

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  • 6:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  Interseminars | Dylan Rodríguez: “Against the Counterinsurgency Machine”

  • Lecture